The region is characterised to be extremely cold, dry and windy with scarce precipitations. Summer does not exist.
The registered minimum temperature was of -89,3º C. The storms are "deaf", without thunders or lightning and they blow the hardened snow. These storms are called blizzard.
This climate is due to numerous factors, among them: the high latitude, the magnitude of the ice layer that covers it and practically no sunshine during many months.
In the purity and limpidity of the Antarctic atmosphere several optic phenomena take place. Among them " halos " and " paraselene ". One can also see " illusions ", in which the images are inverted.
The "southern dawn" is a luminous phenomenon that takes place 100 km up in the atmosphere.
There are moments where there are no shades; the "sky of water" points out when there is free water on the icy sea and the "glare of ice" which indicates presence of ice.
